Obama should throw as many African-American civil rights leaders on the bus as he can. It boosts his post-racial cred, separates him from 60s and 70s activists and disenfranchises a voting block that isn't going to defect. If he's lucky he might even goad the Republicans into trying to make some sort of point.

I'm not so sure, NY_10023. If you're talking about Iraq, besides the fact that it's just not an issue anymore, there isn't nearly the support for a unilateral, immediate withdrawal that there was a year and a half ago. I think it's also a tenuous argument that McCain's foreign policy is the same as Bush's-- he differed on the handling of the Iraq War from the beginning and opposed the prison at Guantanamo Bay.